[5] He established school records in every freestyle event, winning three Canadian intercollegiate gold medals in each of his freshman, sophomore and senior years.

[6] He competed for Canada at the 1959 Pan American Games in Chicago and the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, where he finished sixth in the 100 meter freestyle and was fourth with the 4 × 100 m relay team.

[15] In 1978, Pound was elected to the International Olympic Committee and put in charge of negotiating television and sponsorship deals.

His criticisms were given a wide airing after the scandals surrounding the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympics broke, and he was then appointed head of the inquiry into the corruption.

His allegations of widespread doping in professional bicycle racing at times brought WADA into fierce public conflict with the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI).

As of June 2006, there had been 1,406 tests in the program jointly administered by the league and the union, and none has come up with banned substances under NHL rules.

Pound remained sceptical, claiming the NHL rules were too lax and unclear, and do not test for some banned substances, including certain stimulants.

[27] In an interview with hockey blogger B. D. Gallof of Hockeybuzz, on December 19, 2007, Pound was asked to expand on the 30 per cent comment and subsequent reaction, and gave his opinion that stimulants were "the NHL's drug of choice".

[28] In January 2004, Le Monde quoted Pound as saying that "the public knows that the riders in the Tour de France and the others are doping."

This prompted a strongly worded rebuke from Lance Armstrong, who called Pound's comments "careless and unacceptable".

Around the same time, scientists at a French lab were using frozen urine samples from the 1999 Tour de France to find a new way of detecting erythropoietin (EPO), an oxygen-boosting agent.

The report also called for an investigation to "focus on the communications between Dick Pound and the media" and recommended that no disciplinary action be taken against any athletes.

[32] WADA released an official statement, criticising the Vrijman report as biased, ill-informed, speculative, and "fallacious in many aspects".

[33] On June 9, 2006, Armstrong sent an eight-page letter to Jacques Rogge, president of the International Olympic Committee, demanding that action be taken against Pound.

In February 2007, the IOC ethics committee recommended that Pound exercise greater prudence in his public pronouncements.

[35] On August 9, 2008, during a conversation in French, when asked about whether the IOC was embarrassed to be affiliated with Chinese government's recent political history, he was quoted as replying: "We must not forget that 400 years ago, Canada was a land of savages, with scarcely 10,000 inhabitants of European origin, while in China, we're talking about a 5,000-year-old civilization.

"[36] Two months later, the Aboriginal advocacy group LandInSights asked for him to be suspended from the International Olympic Committee for the remark.

[38] In early December 2021, Pound told the media that the "unanimous conclusion" of those on a call with Peng Shuai was that she is "fine".

[39] After speculation that the call was with Peng under duress, the IOC later backtracked on Pound's comments and said that it "can't give any assurances".

[44] In 2002, he received the Canadian Olympic Order (gold), International Swimming Hall of Fame Golf Medallion Award.

[45] In 2008, he won the Laureus Spirit of Sport Award for his work at WADA[46][47] and was named Chancellor emeritus at McGill University.